Query: Boston Society of Natural History
Richard Dow Papers
Dates:
1930-1939
Size:
0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7457
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These papers consist mostly of correspondence received and written by Richard Dow during graduate school and his tenure at the Boston Society of Natural History. The letters concern his research on the prey of wasps.

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Records
Dates:
1919-1993 and undated
Size:
77.19 cu. ft. (153 document boxes) (1 16x20 box) (4 oversize folders)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7357
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records document the history and development of the American Society of Mammalogists from the time of its inception through the year 1994. The collection includes a number of early documents, some in the handwriting of the originators, and correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, audiocassettes, photographs, and other memorabilia from the …

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Samuel Hubbard Scudder Papers
Creators:
Scudder, Samuel Hubbard, 1837-1911
Dates:
1879-1903 and undated
Size:
0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7249
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These papers consist of correspondence concerning the transfer of Scudder's insect collection from the Hayden Survey to the United States National Museum; notebooks of Tertiary insect drawings; and a catalog and list of fossil insects, and notes.

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Harald Alfred Rehder Oral History Interviews
Creators:
Rehder, Harald Alfred, 1907- , interviewee
Dates:
1976-1977
Size:
6 audiotapes (Reference copies).
Collection ID:
Record Unit 9519
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The Smithsonian Institution Archives began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. Program …

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John Abbot Collection
Dates:
undated
Size:
1 cu. ft. (2 document boxes)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7116
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.

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George A. Boardman Papers
Dates:
1860-1899 and undated, with related papers to 1904
Size:
0.5 cu. ft. (1 document box)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7071
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.

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Richard Rathbun Papers
Creators:
Rathbun, Richard, 1852-1918
Dates:
1870-1918 and undated
Size:
7.9 cu. ft. (15 document boxes) (1 half document box) (1 3x5 box)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7078
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The papers of Richard Rathbun document his early investigations in geology and paleontology; his college career at Cornell University, 1871-1872; his work as geologist on the Geological Commission of Brazil, 1875-1878; and his scientific and administrative careers with the United States Fish Commission and United States National Museum. Of special interest is …

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Oral history interview with Allan Rohan Crite
Creators:
Crite, Allan Rohan, 1910-2007
Brown, Robert F.
Thompson, Susan
Dates:
1979 January 16-1980 October 22
Size:
179 Pages (Transcript)
Collection ID:
AAA.crite79
Repository:
Archives of American Art

An interview of Allan Rohan Crite conducted 1979 January 16-1980 October 22, by Robert F. Brown for the Archives of American Art. Also participating in the interview is Crite's assistant, Susan Thompson.

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Michiko Takaki papers
Creators:
Takaki, Michiko, 1930-2014
Dates:
1921-2011
bulk 1960s
Size:
134.16 Linear feet (167 boxes, 7 rolls, and 7 map-folders)
Collection ID:
NAA.2016-23
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The papers of Michiko Takaki, 1921-2011 (bulk 1960s), document her field work among the Kalinga people of the northern Philippines and her professional contributions as a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. The papers consist primarily of economic and linguistic field data gathered between 1964 and 1968, used in the production of her doctoral dissertation ("Aspects of Exchange in a Kalinga Society, Northern Luzon," 1977) and throughout her anthropological career. The collection consists of field notes, maps, photographic prints, negatives, slides, sound recordings, recorded film, data and analysis, correspondence, working files and drafts, and publications.

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Records
Dates:
1926-1988
Size:
30.62 cu. ft. (8 record storage boxes) (43 document boxes) (1 12x17 box) (1 16x20 box)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 7149
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.

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